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About me

Gillian Davis is author and founder of First Time Leader an agency that helps fast growing companies with their leadership, culture and teams. She believes that any one can lead regardless of title and as a leading company culture expert, Gillian knows what it takes to make teams work. She thrives when in those meaty organisational development and transformation challenges. Gillian and her team works with their clients to ensure a strong and healthy culture by leading on employee experience design and leadership. Her book, First Time Leader, provides frameworks and tools to help leaders and their teams deliver better results faster.

Work history

Currently

Organizational Change

Supporting WeTransfer's leadership team through a period of high growth and change.

Currently

Owner

First Time Leader

Jan 2014

London, United Kingdom

Freelance

Inspiring the next generation of Leadership.
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40% of new leaders fail within the first 18 months.
We are on a mission to decrease that statistic by providing:
Leadership Development Programs: Tailored to the mission, vision and values, these programs are designed to support the organizations rising stars and new leadership teams. Combines personal development with commercial acumen, in line with and tailored to the organization's mission, vision and values. It provides strategies and tools that can be immediately implemented.
Employee Experience Programs: Supporting fast-growing, scale-up, teams to ensure they have the process in place to attract, recruit and retain the right people.
BRAVE coaching: Provide one-on-one sessions with newly promoted professionals to help them through periods of growth and transition and support them support their teams.
Team Alignment Workshop: Bring Core Teams together by aligning on the purpose and mission to ensure everyone in the team understands where they are needed to make the biggest impact.
Thinking Talks: Deliver thought provoking talks to get new leaders and young professionals thinking differently about how to take control of their own development and leadership strategies.

2016

Head of Studio Experience

Playing my part in the organizational transformation from design studio to digital product studio, whilst ensuring we maintain our strong culture. Work with agile ways of working to deliver an organizational change program. Using design thinking and product management principles we have created and implemented employee experience programs (talent management, mentoring & leadership development, hiring). I support and lead the transition to a more self-managed organization by driving accountability, responsibility and instilling confidence in all.
ustwo is a global digital product studio with a 200+ strong family of designers, developers and product experts based in New York / London / Malmö / Sydney. We create digital products and services that make a difference for the world's leading brands as well as experiment with our own product initiatives - one output being our pride and joy, the mobile game, Monument Valley.